TEACHING

Over the past twelve years, Helen has gained experience teaching students from a wide variety of backgrounds, ages and abilities.  She has taught life skills to young adults with learning difficulties, basic literacy to adults, English as a foreign language to Japanese adults and children from as young as one year old, poetry writing and performance in schools and adult writers' groups, and psychology,  sociology and child development to undergraduates at the University of Gloucestershire, University of the West of England, University of Exeter, University of Bath and the Open University.  She has taught a wide range of subjects at undergraduate and postgraduate level, including: social psychology; social constructionism; developmental psychology; applied psychology; qualitative and quantiative research methods; multivariate statistics; health psychology; clinical psychology; and introductory social analysis.  She has lectured to large groups, and run workshops and seminars for groups of up to fifty students both face-to-face and online.  In March 2010, she began work in her current position, teaching psychology undergraduates applied psychology, social psychology, research methods and other subjects at the University of Gloucestershire, England. To read more about Helen's various teaching positions, go to the Curriculum Vitae page in the Academia section of this website.